Antibiotic Therapy for Critically Ill Patients in the Age of COVID-19
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 3907
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infectious diseases; global health; migrants; difficult to treat infection; multidrug resistant organisms; MDROs; antibiotics
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Interests: critical care medicine; intensive care medicine; sepsis; pneumonia; extracorporeal techniques; infections in ICU
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Treatment guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia recommend initial empiric antibiotic therapy for possible bacterial infection or co-infection, given that they often coexist and there are no clear diagnostic tests for determining if the pneumonia is solely due to a virus at the time of onset. On the other hand, treatment decisions must be weighed taking into account the rise of multidrug-resistant bacteria and complications associated with antibiotic use. Currently, there are no clear estimates on the incidence of bacterial co-infection in patients with COVID-19 and no clinical trials have been conducted on the use of empiric antibiotics in these patients. Some macrolides, teicoplanin and fluoroquinolones have been analyzed for their potential capacity to bind to SARS-CoV-2. We aimed to evaluate original articles and reviews to improve the knowledge on this interesting topic.
Dr. Giancarlo Ceccarelli
Dr. Francesco Alessandri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibiotic therapy
- antibiotic resistance
- COVID-19
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